Sometimes the only way to cope with horrific ugliness is to seek a beauty underneath. Guillermo del Toro's intense and powerfully realized vision of Fascist Spain through a young girl's eyes won three Academy Awards in 2007, earned Best Film of the Year kudos from Roger Ebert and many other critics, and received standing ovations at the Cannes and Toronto film festivals. Ivana Baquero turns in a heartbreaking performance as Ofelia, whose mother marries a vicious and sadistic army captain. As her life becomes increasingly brutal, Ofelia is visited by fairies and a strange, enigmatic faun, who tells her of an underground kingdom where she was once a princess. Director Guillermo del Toro wrote the English subtitles for this Spanish-language film, and the two-DVD edition includes numerous featurettes and much additional material, ranging from stories of the film's monsters, and pages of del Toro's sketch-filled notebooks, to his in-depth interview with Charlie Rose.

"An epic, poetic vision in which the grim realities of war are matched and mirrored by a descent into an underworld populated by fearsomely beautiful monsters."—Observer (London)

"A fairy tale of such potency and awesome beauty that it reconnects the adult imagination to the primal thrill and horror of the stories that held us spellbound as children."—Chicago Sun-Times